Ask A Monk: Dealing With Pain and Using Suffering as a Vehicle for Enlightenment
Why Buddhism Stack Exchange recommends it
Buddhism Stack Exchange answerers link it when advising people on how to meditate through pain, anger or other unpleasant experiences using Vipassana noting.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2015 to 2018.
What it is
A 2011 Ask A Monk video in which Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu answers a viewer's question about a painful urge to move during meditation. He explains how to observe pain and other unpleasant sensations mindfully, treating suffering as a path toward insight rather than something to escape.
What people said
Recommends Ryan · 2015-06 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “Dealing with angriness or sadness that comes up with "meditation"”
How to deal with it without being ashamed of such feelings? There's nothing wrong with feeling shame. How to deal with it? From a Buddhist point of view, you should practice meditation, and in my opinion, Vipassana meditation. By doing so you will come to terms with these feelings as they arise and they will no longer effect you in such a way, and by the sound if it, you will also be able to come to terms with this aversion you've built up to the intense experiences of pain you had in the past, which may have had some role to play in leading to your present experiences of anger and depression. Here is a brief article on pain and how meditation can help you come to terms with it: [LINK] And h
Recommends user2424 · 2018-08 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “What is a skillful way to meditate in the midst of a migraine headache?”
Theravada Buddhist Answer based in the Burmese method as taught by the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw . The following method is based in Vipassana meditation. This type of meditation is characterized by taking reality as an object of meditation, meaning that one directs attention towards the most apparent object in the present moment. In terms of a migraine attack one might focus on the pain, nausea if present, a feeling of lightheadedness or ones reaction towards those objects. One would note whatever object is most predominant and change object when another object becomes predominant. One notes the pain by mentally and slowly saying to oneself "pain, pain, pain" . This is done while keeping attention
Cites user143 · 2015-05 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “Methods of Modern Meditation Masters”
Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw [LINK] is a 20th century burmese meditation master. His teachings on Vipassana Meditation, also called Insight Meditation is derived from the so called "New Burmese Method" . The following quote is from the wiki: [LINK] "The vipassanā Movement, also called the Insight Meditation Movement, refers to a number of branches of modern Theravāda Buddhism which stress insight into the three marks of existence as the main means to attain awakening and become a stream-enterer. It finds its origins in modernist influences on the traditions of Burma, Laos, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the innovations and popularizations by Theravāda teachers as Mahasi Sayadaw." The vipassana meditatio
Cites user2424 · 2015-10 · Buddhism Stack Exchange · on “Should detachment, and letting go, be an appropriate response when you are owed money?”
Answer based in Theravada Buddhism . Such situations that you describe here can really get one burning inside. It can make one so angry. The feeling of being poorly treated can also arise. The nature of these feelings are dark and stormy. They leave a gloomy print on the mind, which is not conducive to either ones practice or ones way of life. One can choose to see this from the above mentioned angle. One can react to the anger and feed it, by giving it attention and dwelling in it. One can identify with it and take ownership of it, saying that "I am angry" and that "This is my anger" or "This person did this to me". These are examples of how ignorance (avijja) and conceit (mana), makes one